Technical Program Manager

Description

• Collaboration with top‑tier engineers, researchers, and product experts in AI and robotics
• Urgently identify, prioritize, and clear blockers
• Using systems thinking, perspective, and technical judgment: bring clarity, prioritization, and guidance to teams
• Empathize with, partner with, negotiate with, and manage stakeholders. Use tactful and effective approaches to achieve alignments and secure commitments
• Establish efficient, effective, clear, timely program communication optimised for the very real challenges of collaboration across distances, cultures, and timezones. Your communication is tailored to the audience.
• Proactively anticipate risks, put handling plans in place, and manage them actively
• Comprehensively plan the program, accountable for scope, schedule, cost, and process. Although the emphasis of your program scope is delivery of a robot hardware platform, your program is HIGHLY cross-functional, incorporating: Systems, Safety, Mechanical, Electrical, Firmware, Software, AI/ML, DFX, Regulatory, Integration, Test, Supply Chain, Design, Product, Marketing, Logistics, and more.
• Track and motivate program and project progress end-to-end, coordinating many teams and sites to predictably execute the plan

Requirements

• Organized, self-directed, able to juggle many complex threads
• A toolkit of multiple project management methodologies
• Ability to rapidly grasp and distill complex technical concepts
• Based on situational judgment, manage at various levels between strategic and detailed
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical field relevant to robotics
• Freedom to influence the product and own key initiatives
• Natural team leadership skills
• A track record creating structure and paths through ambiguity
• Calm and articulate demeanor under pressure, including with executive audiences
• 5+ years of relevant post-graduate experience leading hardware-heavy new product introduction, including explicitly serving as project or program manager
• Seriously excellent synch and asynch communication skills
• Engineering industry experience developing scalably-manufacturable hardware solutions using scalable engineering processes

Benefits

• Competitive salary plus participation in our Stock Option Plan
• Travel opportunities to our London and Vancouver offices
• Office perks: free lunches
• Paid vacation with adjustments based on your location to comply with local labor laws

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance